You can also easily add separators, custom-made icons and other tools to the dock. The toolbar is also highly customisable, letting the user choose the amount of opacity for the icons and the dock’s base its distance from the screen’s edges and the size of the dock as well as the icons. Not only does this look great, it also makes sure you don’t mistakenly launch an application instead of its neighbour. Rolling your mouse over the icons – usually in PNG format – will enlarge them in size, as if your mouse is a magnifying tool. Like the OSX Dock, RocketDock is a bar of icons that can be placed on any border of your screen. Of course, the first question anyone would ask is: “Does RocketDock take up too many resources?” With around only 20MB of RAM being used, there is absolutely no reason to worry about it causing sluggish performance. Your wallpaper and desktop look less cluttered, while giving you easier access than before! But till then, XP and Vista users have been offered a reprieve by a few guys over at Punk Labs with the RocketDock.Įssentially, it eliminates the standard Windows taskbar as well as desktop icons, letting you get to your most-used programs in a cool new interface. Granted, the next version of Microsoft’s operating system, Windows 7, brings something close to it with the super-taskbar. The Dock is clean, handy and looks great.
There’s none of the hassle of Windows’ 4-step process: Start -> Programs -> (Application folder) -> (Application). It's frustrating, but not a major problem, and hopefully can be addressed in future updates.One of the biggest differences between Windows and the Mac OSX is the latter’s ‘Dock’ – an array of frequently-used applications placed conveniently at the bottom of the screen. Instead, they're accessible from a secondary settings menu available only by right-clicking on the dock itself. One drawback of the program is that the main settings menu is not where you go to add in and configure these extras. RocketDock's publisher is also growing a community around the program, and the app's Web site has areas where you can download more icons, widgets, and skins to enhance and further customize your experience. It comes with more than 20 skins fonts and colors are fully customizable, as is the icon order and you can choose which icons are displayed, independent of the program's actual icon. The dock can live on any of the four edges of your monitor, you can set it to always be on top, on bottom, autohide, or be ever-present. The Mac-style program dock and launcher for Windows 2000, XP, and Vista has it all, from a smooth installation to flawless icon transitions and an unobtrusive footprint. Where most other docks fail, RocketDock soars.
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